Texas II: Casey Mears preview

Target Team Facts:
* Seeing Red Again: The Target Dodge will be back to
its familiar red and white colors this weekend at Texas Motor Speedway.
The No. 41 Dodge had been pink and white in honor of the Breast Cancer
Research...

Target Team Facts:

* Seeing Red Again: The Target Dodge will be back to
its familiar red and white colors this weekend at Texas Motor Speedway.
The No. 41 Dodge had been pink and white in honor of the Breast Cancer
Research Foundation during the month of October.

* Texas: Determination, teamwork and great pit stops
earned the No. 41 team a top-five finish at Texas Motor Speedway in
April. Mears piloted a back-up Dodge, after blowing a right-front tire in
practice, to a fourth-place finish to tie his career-best effort. Mears
has accumulated one-top five and two top-10 finishes in three starts at
the 1.5-mile track in the Lone Star State.

* New Addition: Jimmy Elledge will return to his
crew chief duties this weekend after leaving Atlanta to be with his wife
Kelley as she gave birth to their second daughter Kennedy Grace on
Saturday. Kennedy weighed 7 pounds, 12 ounces and was 19 ¼ inches long.

* Testing: The Target team participated in a two-day
test at Homestead-Miami Speedway in preparation for the season finale.
The team was originally slated to test last week, but hurricane Wilma
prevented them from doing so while the facility was being cleaned up and
repaired.

* Standings: Mears and the Target team moved back up
to 24th in the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series standings following their
21st-place effort last weekend in Atlanta.

* Making a difference: Mears, Target and Chip
Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates hope their efforts will make a
difference in the lives of those affected by breast cancer. In the
group's October racing initiative for the Breast Cancer Research
Foundation, they have raised money for the foundation through the sales
of special pink racing products, the auction of Mears' pink racing
helmet worn during the five races in October and the hood from the No. 41
Target Dodge that was driven at Talladega.

* Chassis: Crew chief Elledge and the Target team
are back with chassis #206. Mears drove this chassis last weekend in his
roller coaster ride of a day at Atlanta Motor Speedway. This chassis
recently finished sixth at Charlotte and had an eighth-place effort at
Kansas one week prior. This chassis will be making its 10th appearance
of the 2005 season. Mears drove this chassis to two other top-10 finishes
this year, a sixth-place finish at Indianapolis and a ninth-place finish
at Chicagoland.

Casey Mears Quotes:

On Texas: "I like the big, fast tracks like Texas, Charlotte and
Atlanta. I would consider Texas one of my favorite tracks on the
circuit. It's a lot of fun and the greatest sensation of speed we
get anywhere. We ran really well during the month of October, and
especially at the bigger tracks. I'm extremely excited and
optimistic about this race, if Atlanta and Charlotte were any indication
we have a great opportunity to run well and finish up front this weekend
in the Target Dodge."